Hesperia COP volunteers set record  again

HESPERIA • Hesperia's Citizens On Patrol volunteers put in more hours in 2009 than any of the other 40 COPs in the county for the second year in a row.

The volunteer arm of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, the 51 Hesperia station COPs put in 21,039 hours of work in 2009, or an average of 412 hours per volunteer.

The Hesperia station actually has more volunteers than patrolmen on the street — 51 versus 41 — which allows the station to use the COPs to cover for many of the tasks that sworn officers spend time doing in other areas.

"My goal two years ago was to not only increase the hours (worked), but also increase the number of people doing the hours," said Hesperia station COP Unit Commander Steve Sensenbach. Traditionally, he said, he'd seen 20 percent of the volunteers putting in 80 percent of the total hours worked.

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Beau Yarbrough can be reached at 760-956-7108 or at beau@HesperiaStar.com.

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